Edge of Empire (eBook)

Atlantic Networks and Revolution in Bourbon Río de la Plata

Fabrício Prado (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
264 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96073-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities. Edge of Empire analyzes the emergence of Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo's autonomist projects. These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. A Portuguese Town in Río de la Plata
2. Departing without Leaving: Luso-Brazilians under the Viceroyalty
3. Transimperial Cooperation: Commerce and War in the South Atlantic
4. The Making of Montevideo: Contraband, Reforms, and Authority
5. Changing Toponymy and the Emergence of the Banda Oriental
6. Traversing Empires: The Atlantic Life of Don Manuel Cipriano de Melo
7. Postponing the Revolution: Transimperial Commerce and Monarchism in the Banda Oriental

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: 18th century • 19th century south america • Argentina • argentinian commerce • atlantic trade • banda oriental • cisplatine province • colonia do sacramento • commerce in the south atlantic • don manuel cipriano de melo • economic history of argentina • luso brazilians • Montevideo • portuguese imperialism • Rio de la Plata • South America • South American History • spanish conquest in south america • Transatlantic Trade • transimperial trade • Uruguay • war in the south atlantic
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96073-4 / 0520960734
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96073-2 / 9780520960732